Paula Heil Fisher (P.H. Fisher) P.H. Fisher studied at Indiana University, Bloomington before moving to New York to pursuer a career in writing. She continued studies at Playwrights Horizons, The New School, Julliard at Night school for music, and studied piano with concert pianist Jennifer Tao. She has written screenplays (“Fear of Finance”, “Crow Feather and Wind”), stage plays (“Fiddler’s Green”, “A Monkey’s Wedding”, “Apple Pie”), has been published in numerous periodicals and authored a book for Simon and Schuster.

In the production side of theater, she served as either a producer ,co-producer or assistant on such projects as Broadway’s hit musical revival “Damn Yankees”, David Mamet’s “Oleanna”, “Rogers and Hart Rediscovered”, Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods” among others.

She then co-founded the theater/performance company, Millennial Arts Productions (M.A.P.), with theater/opera director Eric Fraad (a young protégé of Joe Papp). The group became known for its “downtown” innovative productions of classical and operatic repertoire, including the first fully staged version of Handel’s “Messiah” for the Holland Early Music Festival, a staged production of Stravinsky’s ballet “Pulcinella”, Handel’s “Esther” in New York City. Original premieres include “La Fete d’Atreus”, “The Birth of Opera”, La Contessa de Canto e delle Lagrime: Barbara Strozzi”, “Cacia al L’amore”.

In film, she wrote and directed the feature-length, “Finding Eleazar”, an acclaimed selection of the Tribeca Film Festival, the Montreal World Festival Of Films, Savannah Film Festival, and Boston/Haifa Film Festival. She collaborated with celebrated director Sidney Lumet on a short film shown in the Palm Springs Festival. Later, she also wrote and directed a feature length documentary about an Olympic equestrian hero and his dazzling stallion, “Royal Kaliber”.P.H. Fisher is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

Current opera collaborations with Frederic Chaslin as composer includeWuthering Heightsand CLARIMONDE (La Morte Amoureuse), based on a novella by Theophile Gautier— http://www.lamorteamoureuse.com/